Installing Drupal

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Hi,

I tried to Update my Drupal 4.4.2 to Drupal 4.5 RC. I did not went very well and the result was a long way of putting the BackUp back in place. I got an parse error when putting the backup back in place and after some digging I saw that one of the Drupal inc files was not complete. Ok, I am running and up again.

Drupal 4.5
Let me begin with saying that I follewed the steps described in the INSTALL notes. I back up everything including the MySQL file. After that I replaced the Drupal files.

Question:
Do I have to replace all files or just the ones with a newer date?

Question:
Do I have to delete some files first such as the files in the modules directory? And are there more files to be deleted (Themes for example)?

I think a more detailed explanation is needed in case of Updating an excisting Drupal WebSite. The next case was running the Update Script. In my case I got a message that the menu directory already excisted. End of Update and a lot of troubles.

Question:
We have to choose what version (date) we want to update from. How to find out which one you need? There were a lot of choices, but I still do not know which one I had to choose. Is the default choice given by the script the one I need?

A lot of questions to improve to updating process. For newbies it is needed to prevent the things I encountered. I must be easier to update than this.

In the installation instructions this tells how to create a cron task - when you access the unix server on a command line

I just installed Drupal, and found the documentation in Install.txt to be quite confusing. Obviusly it's written more for UNIX-geeks with direct access to the server than for me, and not suitable for my situation/setup.

I download to my PC and unpack with WinZip. Then I upload to my service provider, and use PHPmyAdmin to set up the database.

In the spirit of Drupal, I'll not going to complain more about this, but try to write a install.txt more suited for those in my situation. Since I'm not techproficient I'm sure this can be done better, but take it as a starting point.

1. DOWNLOAD DRUPAL

You can obtain the latest Drupal release from http://drupal.org/ http://drupal.org/project/releases.
Download the current tar.gz format [Redundant - Thats the only format present] and extract the files:

$ wget http://drupal.org/drupal/drupal-x.x.x.tgz
$ tar -zxvf drupal-x.x.x.tgz

Unzip it.

This will create a new directory drupal-x.x.x/ containing all
Drupal files and directories. MoveUpload the contents of that directory
into a directory within your web server's document root or your
public HTML directory:

$ mv drupal-x.x.x/* drupal-x.x.x/.htaccess /var/www/html

2. CREATE THE DRUPAL DATABASE [This step tripped me bad]

[Delete all text and replace with:]

I've installed 4.4.2 and I now want to install two modules fscache & filestore2 but there are lacking in documentation.
How do you install these modules.

From what I can see in the files I think I need to copy the sql into the database and move fscache.module & filestore2.module into /modules

But in both folders there are sub-folders of "po".
What are you meant to do with these files?

I've looked around the site and googled but can not find any instructions on how to do this. If some one could help...

Thanks
James

I've done everything I can think of and followed the installation instructions as carefully as I could but when I go to my website I still get this message:

unable to select database

My gut is that it's something with the way I created the database or the permissions set in mySQL, but I'm not sure where to go from here.

Thanks in advance for any help.